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Martin Ivan Mikulik 1 “La Escena del Aeropuerto” by La Pandilla del Verano Recording Rationale Song Band Album Label Written by Produced by Recorded By Mixed By Mastered by Song Information La Escena del Aeropuerto La Pandilla del Verano Un Film de la Pandilla del Verano Hasta los Días Records German Bertasio La Pandilla del Verano Martin Ivan Mikulik, Julián Lanzillotta Martin Ivan Mikulik Daniel Ovie “La Escena del Aeropuerto” is the 2nd track of Un Film de la Pandilla del Verano, an album conceived as the soundtrack to a nonexistent film. Songs would be telling the whole story and this track belongs to an imaginary airport scene. Mostly instrumental, the pieces of this album gave me the chance of experimenting, trying to communicate feelings through the music. Recording Session Log Source Technique Microphone Josephson C42 Josephson C42 Wunder CM7 FET Type SDC Cardioid SDC Cardioid LDC Cardioid Preamplifier Acoustic Guitar A B Room API 512C API 512C Great River MP500nv Bass Direct Recording Keyboards Passive Direct Box Radial JDI Passive Direct Box Direct Recording RME Fireface UFX Vertical Piano A B Bayerdynamics MC930 Bayerdynamics MC930 Digidesign Digi 002 Digidesign Digi 002 AMS Neve 1073LB 5cm OnAxis to the Electric Guitar L outer part of the cone Shure SM57 20cm OnAxis to the Electric Guitar R outer part of the cone Wunder CM7 FET SDC Cardioid SDC Cardioid Dynamic Cardioid AMS Neve 1073LB LDC Cardioid API 512C Airplanes XY Zoom H1 2 SDC Cardioid Zoom H1 Backing Vocals Close Miking Wunder CM7 FET LDC Cardioid API 512C Speaker Voice Close Miking Shure SM58 Dynamic Cardioid RME Fireface UFX pre I mainly used the ADDA converter of a RME Fireface UFX interface for the whole project. Martin Ivan Mikulik 2 This instrumental track was written for an acoustic guitar. I tracked it first to build the song from there. Initially, I tried an M/S technique, but ultimately settled for an AB technique, which I tend to prefer for Acoustic Guitars, for its stereo image. I was looking for a bright sound so I used Josephson’s C42 paired stereo Mics and API 512C preamplifiers. Faced with a C42 or Beyerdynamics MC930 option, I took the production decision of going with the bright sounding C42. Keyboards would be adding lots of lowmid and mid range frequencies, so I wanted to offer some guitar contrast. Josephson C42 FET Frequency Response I used a Wunder CM7 Fet Mic to add some room in case it was needed in the mix. I directed the mic to the hole of the guitar, about 1.5 meters away. I wanted a clean fat bass sound, so I recorded it straight through the AMS Neve 1073LB preamp, which I prefer for bass because of it detailed low end. I used a DI box for the keyboards’ sounds. Since I was going to be dealing with a lot stereo instruments, I wanted the two keyboards to be in mono and panned to each of the sides, to have some differences in the main stereo channel. The vertical piano, a very nice Rönisch, was recorded at a friend’s house, where we only had access to an AD converter and a preamp of a Digidesign DIGI002. We recorded it without the lid, and miked it with an AB Technique pointing the mics to the hammers of the bass and treble zones, as shown in the picture. Martin Ivan Mikulik 3 The electric guitar was recorded from a VOX AC30 amplifier. I wanted two different sounds to pan to each of the sides of the stereo. I used a SM57 on axis at 5cm, pointing to the outer part of the cone through a NEVE 1073LB preamp, in order to have a strong fat sound. And then a Wunder CM7FET on axis at 20cm, pointing to the outer part of the cone through an API 512 C, for more clarity, and thus avoiding phase cancellation. We recorded the airplanes sounds in an open field, near the Buenos Aires Airport. Transporting all of the appropriate recording gear to the location was not a viable option, so a Zoom H1 recorder offered the perfect solution. Though the quality of the product may not be the best, we wanted it to sound real, and the zoom’s 2 sdc cardioid mics forming an XY technique gave as just that, a real effect with a beautiful stereo image. I recorded the backing vocals through a Wunder CM7 Fet mic through an API 512C preamp, a nice option for the singer’s kind of timbre. Finally, I recorded my own voice through a Shure SM57 mic and the preamp of the RME Fireface UFX, trying to emulate airport announcements. I equalized it leaving just the mid range frequencies and adding a stereo reverb.
